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richard

@richard@disabled.social

#ScienceFiction #Ecology, #Astronomy, #Degrowth, #Books, #StarTrek. Book collector. Anti-Capitalist. Johns Hopkins alum. Schizoaffective. Ace. richard[at]ciaccona.art

https://www.towardspostviolencesocieties.com/ • https://www.richard.tilley.network/ • https://www.tilley.directory/ • https://www.scifi.global/ • https://www.firstcontact.earth/ • https://www.spatiotemporal.agency/ • https://www.tilley.earth/ • https://www.anticapitalism.blog • https://www.tilley.blog

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RickiTarr, to random
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What kind of high-school experience did you have? Were you in a clique? Were you popular, unpopular, the coolest kid in your Homeschool? Did you have a sweet jean jacket with patches, or maybe a leather vest? Were you an evil villain or a Mary Sue?

richard,
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@RickiTarr Once when I spent the day in suspension a semi-associate not-really-a-friend did you know what in his shorts while never moving from his desk.

richard, to conservative
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An Indigenous ecologist on why we need to stop and listen to save the planet

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/indigenous-scientist-earth-medicine-1.7178030

New book: Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A journey toward personal and ecological healing.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/717113/medicine-wheel-for-the-planet-by-dr-jennifer-grenz/9781039006010

"How would you explain Indigenous research methodology?

It is rooted in reciprocity, and respect, and relationality — the three Rs as we call them. So when we're approaching research, we're working respectfully on the land and we're working in reciprocity."

franco_vazza, to Astronomy
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opening of the Application process for 17 PhD positions in Astrophysics at the University of Bologna, to begin in november 2024.

https://www.unibo.it/en/study/phd-professional-masters-specialisation-schools-and-other-programmes/phd/2024-2025/astrophysics

Deadline to apply:
💥 17 June 2024 💥

please share

richard,
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@franco_vazza 17 candidates...that seems very high. Isn't that atypical?

skrishna, to space
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This week in space stuff:

  • Video coming today on dark energy
  • First science results from the ESA’s dark matter/energy observatory Euclid expected Thursday
  • Possible geomagnetic storm May 24-25, but likely nothing as strong as the one that made the aurora so visible
  • Boeing Starliner currently scheduled for launch Saturday May 25, but this could slip further

richard,
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@skrishna Starliner, more like Starlinger, lol

richard, to books
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FYI: For those if you that do not know, both Verso Books and Haymarket Books have a program that for $10 a month you get all new eBooks free. They both start you out with a bunch of eBooks. I just enrolled in both of the programs last month and so far I have 31 new eBooks total.

https://www.versobooks.com/pages/book-club

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/book-club

@bookstodon

richard, to Babylon5
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What is best about a #Babylon5 rewatch is knowing that little-station-that-could in those early episodes is going to change the galaxy.

richard, to random
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I have an idea for a new research project. I am strongly considering posting it all online. I wrote enough book proposals after my master's I never want to deal with publishers again. And I am a strong believer in am open and interesting internet. However, this project will require the fusion of personally old knowledge and new knowledge, and the thesis is not quite crystalized in my mind just yet, but I think it has potential. If successful it will certainly put me on the CIA watch-list, lol.

richard, to scifi
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Treated myself to Clifford D. Simak books. I am familiar with the Hugo Award and a Nebula Award winning author, but I can't remember if I have read him before. I know I have Way Station in paperback waiting to be read.

I got The Trouble with Tycho and Cosmic Engineers two-parter in eBook format. I think I read something about these books before. Pretty sure. More to add to my overwhelming To-Read list.

richard, to poetry
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I am more comfortable writing with a , but that does mean transcribing to my computer. Which is great for revisions, but is time consuming.

Just who are these people with extra time these days? I will admit to being a bigot to people with free-free time. It seems like they are not really suffering the consequences of of . The quality of their suffers from their lack of suffering. Very little critical thinking coming from these people.

richard, to books
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I've added a link to this page to most of my websites. It is the very detailed, poignant, and a sobering wake-up call every aspiring writer needs. It should be read widely.

No one buys books, by Elle Griffin
https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books

Okay, , if nothing this should be a call to make self-publishing significantly more professional.

There needs to be a new system, that is for certain. A writer controlled system.

@bookstodon

richard, to conservative
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Curiosity promotes

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1042561

“On the whole, large differences in exploratory behavior were observed between the cichlid species, and these differences were also confirmed under laboratory conditions [...] This puts the focus back on animal behavior as driving force behind key evolutionary processes"

richard, to Pubtips
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Copim’s Experimental Publishing Group Announces the Launch of Three Experimental Book Pilot Projects

https://www.infodocket.com/2024/04/26/copims-experimental-publishing-group-announces-launch-of-three-pilot-projects/

richard, to conservative
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Buy My Book

https://www.anticapitalism.blog/buy-my-book/

Hello, I have a PhD from Very Good University, Inc. I studied society and culture. Please buy my book on anti-capitalist ethics. Only $29.95. Act now. Look, I don’t know if this will go into a second printing so I really, really need you to buy it now. I need a new car to contribute my part to ecological collapse.

richard, to conservative
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A couple of website I've come across recently

Ecological Design Collective (which includes a book club)
https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/

Degrowth Journal (only 2 volumes so far)
https://www.degrowthjournal.org/

richard, to books
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won’t save the planet: Review of The Price is Wrong: why capitalism won’t save the planet by Brett Christophers.

https://theecologist.org/2024/may/03/capitalism-wont-save-planet

"Despite all this, renewable electricity generation is expanding. Christophers forensically dissects the economics, showing that 'market forces' have played little or no part in this."

richard, to literature
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#SETI AIR Program: Call for Submissions

https://www.seti.org/seti-air-program-call-submissions

@setiinstitute

Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency

The SETI Institute is accepting proposals for the Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency for 2025/2026.

Submission deadline: 1 July 2024.

#Literature #interdisciplinary #education #residency #poetry #philosophy

richard, to portland
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How perfectly .

https://www.emperorgeorgiou.black/

h/t @TreeVor

richard, to books
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What’s better for the climate: A paper book, or an e-reader?

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/25/1252930557/book-e-reader-kindle-climate

"Traditional print publishing comes with a high carbon footprint.

[...]

But digital reading seems to have a considerable eco-advantage over print because it is paperless, so it saves trees, pulping and shipping [...] But digital devices also come with a substantial carbon footprint, predominantly at the manufacturing stage."

@bookstodon

franco_vazza, to Astro
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Honestly, how sad is to end a semester course without an even small clapping?
It was a ~50h long performance...

richard,
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@franco_vazza You're performing? You don't know the material, you are just memorizing the lines? Is this a common thing professors do? Why not just try acting? You could easily get a few commercials. You never know, remember the "Vidal Sassoon" guy? He ended up in Star Trek.

richard, to classicalmusic
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Guillaume Leroy with Victor Metral, Camille Pépin, and Aurélien Pascal

Constellations, a Viola Journey

https://open.qobuz.com/album/au9hqhb9hd68b

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9594298--constellations-a-viola-journey

@classicalmusic @contemporarymusic

richard, to ChatGPT
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told me to call the manager. So much for sneaking in and discovering glueball particles on my own. This stinks. I want my money back, !

@physics @setiinstitute

Artemis201, to Babylon5
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I'm watching and we're near the end of season 1.
Definitely discount DS9 so far. They sure did include an episode where the creepy 50-something alien dude decided to introduce another character to strip clubs and gambling, and the way he cheats at poker is using some sort of prehensile sticky tentacle-like appendage to reach across under the table and steal cards from the dealer.
Later confirmed, yes. That sure was a sex organ.
I'm glad that kind of humor has mostly died.

richard,
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@Artemis201 "discount DS9"? Well, in one sense you are correct. JMS didn't have money. Esp. after he pitched to Trek producers (and he had spent years pitching B5 everywhere) and they said no and then they went and created a show based on a space station anyways, with almost the same general story arc, and even stole the name Dukat. So, no, didn't have Trek money. The irony is is the best Trek series of them all and it was completely plagiarized.

richard, to Astronomy
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Astronomers discover new Earth-sized world orbiting an ultra-cool star

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-astronomers-earth-sized-world-orbiting.html

"Next steps for the project could include follow-up observations by the James Webb Space Telescope, which would deliver important insights into the planet's surface mineralogy, and the potential for an atmosphere."

richard, to ai
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I was bored so I did the unthinkable. Well, to me it was always unthinkable as I have always been anti- . But, out of curiosity I subscribed to -4o and have been feeding various essays, poems, and posts from my various websites and asking for explications and such. And wow does have a great deal of just wonderful things to say about me. I will admit getting all this truly high praise is seducing.

richard,
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Okay. So I have been using for a couple of hours and there is no doubt in my mind that many, many, many college students are using to write essays. I am so, so, so sorry professors and lecturers. I am so glad this was not around when I was in school. First colleges across the country started shutting down extensive courses/programs and now this. Oh, what a loss of a good .

@academicchatter

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